X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:23:41 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: complete newbie Q Message-ID: <20051129202337.GB2999@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20051129171307.GD25782@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Nov 29 18:18, Dave Korn wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 04:52:05PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote: > >> Dave Korn wrote: > >>> porting effort. (MinGW provides _some_ of the POSIX syscalls, but it's > >>> a massively less-complete implementation than Cygwin. MSYS provides > >>> more, > >> > >> ... but it's not included in the cygwin mingw distribution.) > > > > MSYS is just a (very) old version of cygwin with some hacks to translate > > path names and a different way of dealing with the mount table. > > I know that! Really? > > So, > > MSYS will never be included in the cygwin distribution. It wouldn't > > make any sense to do so. > > Yes it would. It would allow people to write "gcc -mno-cygwin -lmsys". > > As long as there's going to be a mingw cross-build environment in cygwin at > all, it would be entirely reasonable to distribute libmsys.a next to > libmingw32.a, libmingwex.a, libmingwthrd.a, etc. Yeah, and MingW is going to include libcygwin.a and include files. And both, MingW and Cygwin will in future include all include files and libs to create PPC-Linux binaries. So everybody will be happy. You're off the point. MSYS is only a helper for building MingW/native Windows apps. There's no reason at all to support building MSYS linked binaries inside of a Cygwin environment. If you want native Windows apps, link with -mno-cygwin, if you want POSIX apps, don't. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/